exhibition - beijing

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PRESS RELEASE CRITICAL MASS

Exhibtion dates: March 8 - April 27, 2008

Special event curatorial round table ”Western Art in China”: April 5, 2008, 3 - 4pm Live performances by: Yoko Taketani, Megumi Shimizu and Martin Renteria

Opening hours: Thursday - Sunday, 11- 6pm For more information and directions in English: 13522171371 For directions in Chinese: 13718852345 Email:alexandra@theartistnetwork.org

CRITICAL MASS is a group show organized and curated by Marc Hungerbuehler, the director of the:artist:networknewyork for HYCAC (Huang Yan Contemporary Art Center).

Tucked away at the periphery of the Beijing art scene, a 10min bus ride from Caochangdi the monumental halls of a new experimental and alternative art space opens its doors March 8th 2008. Unique in its size and its content, the HYCAC will serve as a harbor of intercultural exchange, exhibitions, artist-in-residencies and most of all as a platform for ideas as far removed from the commercial outburst of 798 as its physical location.

In the spirits of an artist driven grass root movement, CRITICAL MASS CRITICAL MASS is an attempt to draw a great range not only of divers artistic expression but also of divers stages in its development. CRITICAL MASS is a curators' choice of curators and their curatorials. As typically, a curatorial is a specific selection process by an individual of an amalgam of artists and their work, this show seeks to break this concept with multiple viewpoints. Beijing based curators Zhu Qi, Zhang Zaohui, Huang Yan and Laetitia Gauden, whos focus range greatly from young or mid career foreign to emerging, mature or market breaking Chinese artists. This exhibition collides these different perspectives in an attempt to broaden a curatorial theory.